Marjolein holds a master's degree in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, a bachelor's in Art History from Utrecht University, and a degree as Lecturer in Fine Arts and Education from Zuyd University. 

They initiate curatorial and pedagogical projects, facilitating multiple ways of learning by employing the senses through a combination of practical and discursive collaboration. Her projects engage with issues related to ecologies, environment, feminisms, agricultures, decoloniality, critical pedagogy, storytelling, and language.
Marjolein connects artists, researchers, and organizations in interdisciplinary collaborations to invite critical reflection and production within a sociopolitical context related to migration and ecology.

As associate curator at Onomatopee, artist in residence at ZERO Foundation (2023), ARCUS Project, Ibaraki Japan (2021-2022), Storytelling Festival Maastricht (2019-2020), Kiasma Student Day (2019), Lunar Calendar (2018), and the self-initiated project PARALLEL (2016-2017), she developed programs and projects that reflect values of community, equity, empathy, and well being in various outputs. Sharing and collective learning during the process is equally significant as the projects’ final outcome.
They use a range of methods including workshops, tours, writing, lectures, screenings, exhibitions, studio visits, calendars, performances, publications, dinners, and experimental forms of learning and sharing.

Around the concept of Vegetal Curating, which she formulated as part of her graduation research, Marjolein initiates projects that center non-human entities to reflect on social and environmental issues. As an artist in residence at ARCUS project in Ibaraki, Japan (2022), she worked on the project Katsura Hito, which introduces the Katsura tree as a starting point for mapping a rich ecology of relations. In the eponymous publication, she shares stories of fiction and “facts” accompanied by experiences with materials (recipes, exercises, and images) to form a multi-sensorial experience of the fall season.